Manfred, Major League Baseball’s commissioner-elect, Torre, the former Yankees manager, and 150 other baseball staffers are scheduled to get doused with bone-chilling water outside baseball’s Park Ave. offices Wednesday morning. A day earlier, Jeter was the recipient of the ice water bath, when teammates CC Sabathia and Masahiro Tanaka did the honors in the Yankee clubhouse.

Mike Lupica issued the challenge, and Wednesday morning, Rob Manfred and Joe Torre will step up to the plate — or sidewalk in this case.